[SML] SketchUp?

[Jacob Blumberg]

Just out of curriousity if he had everything drafted why did it have to go
into VW? That does suck though.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 18:38 Ronald Koinzan via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> I worked with a scene designer who drafted everything in Sketch up. I'm a
> TD who uses VW. Importing his drawings into VW works fine, but every thing
> is rendered as groups of 3D symbols with no 2D component. I basically had
> to redraft everything to manipulate it in VW. It was worse than having a
> designer who hand drafts everything.
>
> Ron
>
> Ron Koinzan
> Technical Director
> Department of Theatre
> University of Northern Iowa
> (319) 273-2139
>
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Jacob Blumberg via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
>> NEVER USE SKETCH UP FOR 3D PRINTING. I’m sorry but that’s on the list of
>> things you never use Sketch up for. It’s meant purely for visual and
>> measuring. If you want to do 3D printing all Autodesk software is free for
>> students, and after a few tutorials you can design in it and it makes
>> everything 3D printable. Long story short all design software has their
>> intended use and sketch up is not 3D printing. I also have worked places
>> where the engineers swear by Rhino, and when they try to 3D print with that
>> it is a disaster.
>>
>> Jacob
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 16:16 Dave Vick via Stagecraft <
>> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/16/2018 12:52 PM, Steven Hood via Stagecraft wrote:
>>>
>>> > Are any of you all using SketchUp as your main CAD software?
>>>
>>>
>>> Nope; I used to use it for 3D printing until I found out it was really
>>> good (at least on the Mac side) at adding unresolved polygons &
>>> orphaned vertices randomly into every object I tried drawing up &
>>> printing. This may or may not be a factor in your decision to go with
>>> Sketchup, if you're only using it for 2D/lighting work.
>>>
>>> YMMV, as always...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dave Vick
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